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Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
France
18 Jan 1689 // 10 Feb 1755
Political Philosopher
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On Writing:
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations
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On Success:
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed
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On Society:
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people
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On Society:
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves
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On Government:
The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles
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On Government:
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty
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On Brain:
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them
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On Despotism:
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government
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On Government:
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded
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On Appearance:
To succeed in the world, we must be foolish in appearance, but really wise
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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